Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ-Josh T Pearson

[ti:Sweetheart I Ain't Your Christ] [ar:Josh T Pearson] [al:Last Of The Country Gentlemen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:32.32]I ain't your Saviour or your Christ or your goddamn sacrifice [00:47.50]And when I said I'd give my life I weren't talkin' suicide [00:57.20]And I'm so tired of trying to make it right [01:09.75]For a girl who just won't come to the light [01:17.00]Night after night after night after Christ-haunted night [01:30.22] [01:32.41]And how you bring your gifts to me [01:39.49]Tied-up and bound in their bows of pink [01:47.55]And gently place them at my feet like I'm some dying Christmas tree [02:00.46]And drop down to your sexy kitten knees [02:08.58]Sweetly fold your hands and plead for me to suck out some disease [02:19.68]I can't even begin to see [02:33.24]You don't need a lover or a friend [02:39.57]You need a god and not a mortal man [02:46.47]Woman you need born again again [02:48.46]You need a Saviour and I'm just am not him [03:13.21] [05:02.66]And so you sing to me your songs [05:04.60]And how you hum your holy verse [05:07.10]And try to teach my tongue to talk [05:08.41]Cuz you think it'll cure some curse [05:08.66]But that dust of death it's dug too deep to be sung or swept right off your sweet [05:13.41]Heart that lost its beat out there trying to light up cut down fallen men like me [05:16.10]I ain't your Saviour or your Christ or your goddamn sacrifice [05:17.54]And when I said I'd give my life I weren't talkin' suicide [05:26.95]And I'm so tired of trying to make it right for a girl who won't come to the light [05:43.52]Night after night after night after Christ-haunted night [05:57.83] [06:09.66]I can bring you to the water [06:11.85]I can bring you to the shore [06:15.04]I can give all I have to give but Sweetheart [06:25.23]I can't give you more [06:32.29]I can bring you to the water [06:39.85]But I sure as hell can't make you drink [06:47.17]It ain't Christmas time it's Easter Honey Bunny [06:51.85]And I ain't the Saviour you so desperately need [07:03.84]And you won't be saved by saving me [07:37.49]No you won't be saved by saving me [07:39.12]There's no need to cry those eyes [07:40.92]I'll pack my bags and say goodbye [07:47.85]And my return in your lifetime is more unlikely than King Jesus Christ's [07:59.22]I'll take up my gifts and walk the line [08:04.47]Take down my starry guiding Christmas lights [08:09.53]Say hello to the darkness my old friend [08:13.12]Say hello to the sound of silence my dear sweet angel goodnight [08:29.55] [09:43.31]Cuz Sweetheart I ain't your Christ [09:57.42]Sweetheart I ain't your Christ